The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) invites interested women-led SMEs and NGO- led Social Enterprises (SEs) from Kurigram, Manikganj, Jashore, Thakurgaon, and Cox’s Bazar Districts who are working on real economic empowerment of women’s and girls.

The interested women SMEs and NGO-led SMEs are requested to submit their gender-responsive business (manufacturing and service sector preferred) proposal application for funding under the WING program. The application is for receiving technical assistance and financial support such as development grants, credit enhancements, and guarantees that advances gender responsive investment for women’s and girls’ economic empowerment. The WING program plans to target women-led SMEs or SEs that have graduated from its “Start-up” phase into the scale-up phase.

Deadline for submission of proposals: The deadline for submission of investment proposals is on or before the 10th January 2022 at 5:00 PM (Bangladesh time). Proposals can be submitted either in English or Bangla.